Avogadro

Stationary Source Testing

Avogadro has been providing air quality sampling and stack testing services since 1995.  Air quality sampling includes that for ambient air, industrial process air and stationary source sampling.  Stationary source sampling generally involves both compliance and informational stack test programs using USEPA, ASTM, or state and local test methods.

Our staff routinely conducts stack testing on the following process and facility types:

• Boilers and Process Heaters
• Cogeneration/Utilities/Distributed Power
• Commercial Bakeries, Breweries and Food Processing
• Cement Plants/Smelters/Dryers & Kilns
• Chemical Manufacturing
• Engines
• Incineration Units
• Landfills
• Pharmaceuticals
• Printing and Publishing
• Pulp & Paper
• VOC Applications and Coatings
• Waste-to-Energy/Wastewater Treatment Plants

Stack test sampling for these process types requires Avogadro personnel to perform both instrumental and wet chemistry techniques and analyses using approved test methods.  The use of instrumental test methods provides real-time data, allowing virtual instantaneous knowledge of compliance with permit limits.  Wet chemistry methods often yield better detection limits, generally with higher sample volumes, but generally require offsite analyses using specialized instrumentation.

We have conducted stack testing on the following types of air pollution control devices:

• Baghouses
• Carbon Control and Injection
• Catalytic Oxidation
• Cyclones / Multi-Cyclones
• Electrostatic Precipitators
• Flares
• Flue Gas Desulfurization
• Low NOx Technology
• SCR and SNCR
• Scrubbers
• Thermal Incineration

Typical pollutant types sampled and analyzed include:

• Acids and Acid Gases
• Criteria Pollutants
• Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPS)
• Hydrocarbons / Non-Methane Hydrocarbons / Non-Methane Organic Compounds / Poly-aromatic hydrocarbons
• Gross Gas Composition Compounds
• Greenhouse Gases
• Metals
• Particulate Matter: Condensable, Suspended, Total
• Particulate Matter Less Than 10 Microns (PM₁₀) / Particulate Matter Less Than 2.5 Microns (PM_2.5)
• Polychlorinated Biphenyl Compounds (PCB) / Poly-cyclic Organics
• Sulfur compounds
• Volatile Organic Compounds: VOC, semi-volatiles, Poly-aromatic hydrocarbons

Our core business in stack emissions testing requires a commitment to purchasing and maintaining air monitoring and sampling equipment. Avogadro currently owns and operates five mobile laboratories, each equipped with real time instrumentation. The instrumentation or continuous emissions monitoring (CEM) analyzers, are identical to the analyzers which compromise facility CEMS and COMS.  These analyzers are mounted in racks and are preceded by industrial sample transport and conditioning systems.  In addition, the mobile trailers house a variety of the required source sampling equipment, space for sample recovery, and the home-base for staff to provide onsite data presentation.

All equipment undergoes continual preventative maintenance and upgrading to meet USEPA method specifications and to meet routine daily demands. Annual purchases of state-of-the-art equipment and instrumentation allow Avogadro to maintain its high level of expertise.

We have the sampling equipment and instrumentation to conduct all USEPA and virtually all state test methods in addition to a  proven capability for design and fabrication of equipment for unusual sampling problems, such as high-pressure, high-temperature, very highly acidic environments, odor measurements, and other situations requiring special design.

Project managers and Air Emission test team leaders have from five to fifteen or more years of stack test experience.  They are all accustomed to working with federal, state and other regulatory agencies to ensure exceptional stack test results.  Tests are usually conducted under the responsible charge of the Operations Manager or Technical Director.  Often, compliance test reports are signed by a licensed Professional Engineer or Certified Industrial Hygienist.  The technical personnel section provides more details on our staff, including their education and years of experience.  Avogadro’s interim STAC (Stack Accreditation Council) accreditation assures both our clients and regulatory authorities that we are providing them with accurate, reliable data.

Avogadro’s QSTI certified engineers and scientists have a thorough understanding of the process and testing variables that effect final test data.  Hence, we are able to make critical observations both onsite and with the emissions data after the report is documented. Additional services include the following: real-time optimization of control equipment, troubleshooting, recommendations for decreasing emissions, data analysis, regulatory interpretations, agency contact, professional engineering and/or industrial hygiene certification.

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